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+From 1b71bc532bde8621fd3260843f8197182a467ff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
+Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 10:13:01 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] file: on Windows, refuse paths that start with \\
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+... as that might cause an unexpected SMB connection to a given host
+name.
+
+Reported-by: Fernando Muñoz
+CVE-2019-15601
+Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-15601.html
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
+---
+ lib/file.c | 6 ++++--
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/file.c b/lib/file.c
+index d349cd9241cd..166931d7f1ba 100644
+--- a/lib/file.c
++++ b/lib/file.c
+@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static CURLcode file_connect(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
+ struct Curl_easy *data = conn->data;
+ char *real_path;
+ struct FILEPROTO *file = data->req.protop;
+- int fd;
++ int fd = -1;
+ #ifdef DOS_FILESYSTEM
+ size_t i;
+ char *actual_path;
+@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ static CURLcode file_connect(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
+ return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
+ }
+
+- fd = open_readonly(actual_path, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY);
++ if(strncmp("\\\\", actual_path, 2))
++ /* refuse to open path that starts with two backslashes */
++ fd = open_readonly(actual_path, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY);
+ file->path = actual_path;
+ #else
+ if(memchr(real_path, 0, real_path_len)) {